Sagar
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Sagar (pronounced as Saa-gar) is a common male name in India and it means Ocean or sea in Hindi, Urdu and Gujarati, or King.
Sagar Is also used as a Last name or family name in the northern parts of India.
Sagar The name Sagar is also tied to the ancient Anglo-Saxon culture of England. It comes from the baptismal name for the son of Sigar which was an Old English personal name. Spelling variations include: Segar, Seegar, Sigar, Sager, Saker, Sakar and many more. First found in Norfolk where they were seated from early times and their first records appeared on the census rolls taken by the ancient Kings of Britain to determine the rate of taxation of their subjects. Some of the first settlers of this name or some of its variants were: John Saker who settled in Maine in 1625; Thomas, Marie and Joe Saker landed in Virginia in 1635; Thomas Saker settled in Virginia in 1653; John Seegar arrived in Philadelphia in 1880.
Sagar, also known as Saugor, is a small city in Madhya Pradesh state of central India. Sagar is the administrative seat of Sagar District and Sagar Division. The town is in a picturesque situation on a spur of the Vindhya Range, 1758 ft. above sea-level. The town is handsomely built, and is an emporium of trade.
Sagar also boasts of an old and reputed university, the Raja Hari Singh Gaur University, previously Sagar University.
Sagar is also the name of an ancient alien world in the Filmation animated series, BlackStar.
History
Sagar was founded in 1660, but owes its importance to having been made the capital of the Maratha governor who established himself here in 1735.
By a treaty concluded with the Maratha Peshwa in 1818, at the conclusion of the Third Anglo-Maratha War, the greater part of the present district was made over to the British; and the town became the capital of the Saugor and Nerbudda Territories, then attached to the North-Western Provinces. The Saugor and Nerbudda Territories later became part of the Central Provinces (afterwards Central Provinces and Berar) and Sagar District was added to Jabalpur (Jubbulpore) Division. During the Revolt of 1857 the whole district was in the possession of the rebels, except the town and fort, in which the British were shut up for eight months, till relieved by Sir Hugh Rose. The rebels were totally defeated and British rule restored by March 1858. In the early 20th century Sagar had a British cantonment, which contained a battery of artillery, a detachment of a European regiment, a native cavalry and a native infantry regiment.
Upon India's independence in 1947, The former Central Provinces and Berar became the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh.
Click below to see pictures of Ikkeri temple near Sagar (Shimoga, Karnataka, India).
Click below to see pictures of Jog Falls near Sagar (Shimoga, Karnataka, India).
References
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